A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, and for other purposes.

(House receded and concurred in certain Senate amendments with an amendment)

Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for the following agricultural programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) departmental administration; (3) governmental and public affairs and emergency preparedness; (4) Office of the Inspector General; (5) Office of the General Counsel; (6) Federal Grain Inspection Service (with limitations on administrative expenses); (7) Agricultural Research Service (including the purchase of land in the Central Plains Experimental Range, Colorado, and scientific activities overseas); (8) Cooperative State Research Service; (9) Extension Service (including programs for animal health and nonpoint source pollution, and for carrying out the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978); (10) National Agricultural Library; (11) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (including emergency funds for the Mediterranean fruit fly program); (12) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (13) Economic Research Service; (14) Statistical Reporting Service; (15) Agricultural Cooperative Service (including a specified amount for opening an office in Hawaii); (16) World Agricultural Outlook Board; (17) Agricultural Marketing Service (including a specified amount for the Blytheville, Arkansas Cotton Marketing Office, limitations on administrative expenses, and payments to States and possessions; (18) Packers and Stockyards Administration; and (19) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (including the dairy indemnity program).

Authorizes the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to make expenditures to carry out their respective programs. Places limits on 1982 amounts for CCC administrative expenses and direct export credit loans. Prohibits the use of any funds for loan guarantees for producing or marketing industrial hydrocarbons and alcohol from agricultural products.

Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for rural development assistance as follows: (1) Farmers Home Administration; (2) Rural Electrification Administration; (3) Soil Conservation Service; and (4) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (including forestry incentives and water bank programs).

TItle III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for programs of the Food and Nutrition Service, including child nutrition (limits reimbursement to meals served after September 1, 1981), the special milk and supplemental food programs, food stamps (including job search activities and work registration) and administrative expenses.

Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service (including an allotment from the Commodity Credit Corporation); (2) the Office of International Cooperation and Development; and (3) Public Law 480 (financing the sale of agricultural commodities for convertible foreign currencies).

Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) Farm Credit Administration (with limitations on administrative expenses).

Title VI: General Provisions - Limits the expenditures of specified appropriations made by this Act. Allows specified housing funds to remain available until expended.

Provides that ceilings on full-time equivalent staff years of the Department of Agriculture shall exclude overtime as well as staff years expended as a result of carrying out natural disaster programs. Sets ceilings for specified agency and activity appropriations under this Act.